I couldn' disagree more, i cant stand farron keep, everything looks the same, enemies are annoying and yoi need to do the stupid puzzle. Blighttown is short simple and can be over and done wjth in 5 minutes ( plus thr climb down is excellent level design)
Souls Mojo never disapoints but yeah the swamp of sorrow is so painful to go through I must've died like at least 10 times and let's not talk about the giant who are full speed destroying you. Great outro as always
10 times is nothing. I died at least 50 times minimum trying to make it out. I had to get the sodden ring just to make my life easier because those big idiots are too difficult without the ability to roll
I honestly really enjoyed exploring the swamp in DS3. There was some ground so you didn’t always have to be poisoned. The enemy variety was pretty good and lighting all the torches was a fun challenge
Absolutely not. The roll is terrible. I hate when They limited my roll. Light in the 3 flames is not a challenge But a waste of my time. I really prefer blighttown because with a certain ring you can move normally.
I know the wa of the dagger. But still, it's a poorly designed area if I need to use a wa to move. At least in blighttown the poison swamp is a Small part of the area and not having the ring isn't too much of a problem since you can still roll normally Even without it. In farron none of this is possible.
You can use the umbrella to deflect Emma and Isshin’s grab but that’s about it. You can just block it with the umbrella but you’ll get knockback, if you parry it you can use projected force to counter the grab
Yeah she's cake when you do that, honestly Ashina depths should have gotten the easiest on this list, it's entirely possible and pretty easy to go through the whole thing without even touching poison once
Blighttown is legit my favorite level in DS1 and IMO one of the most memorable levels in all of Souls. I think its peak level design, Along with incredible Atmosphere, Went into it expecting a horrible experience, Left absolutely baffled how so many despise it.
It's the most difficult in the cheapest ways possible. It's the most meme worthy hunk o junk. The design on paper is pretty cool. In operation it's a tedious and boring slog through artificial difficulty. Lots of dark narrow paths and ambushes and bad collision and constant off screen hits and then more bad collision over and over until you reach a big open pit with absolutely nothing to do, not much important loot to gather, and an annoying boss run through slow motion poison before a legitimately fun boss. 2/10
@@ItzSkettimas That's your opinion, Which is fine, I, However, Feel very differently lol. I never thought it was difficult other than those one dudes spamming the toxic darts in a particular area, But other than that it was one of the more entertaining areas to go through, In no way did I find it tedious or boring. I actually liked a lot of the enemy placements, Loved the platforming and verticality of the level, And again, The atmosphere was second to none. Def my favorite area from DS1 next to the DLC. Amazing experience for me, Horrible experience for others. Maybe if I played it on the OG DS1 I might of had a different experience tho, As I've heard the lighting and frame rate was atrocious on the PS3 version. But on the remastered version I played I had no issues whatsoever. Overall tho, I freaking loved Blighttown lol
@@butterschunkmcdonalds5333 the main reason blighttown has such a bad reputation, was that it caused an insane amount of lag in the original game, especially on console
@@leonjakobsen272 Yeah that's what I figured, Like I said I only played it on the Remastered version so it was fine for me but I seen OG DS1 and the frame drops were insane in Blighttown lol
The blowdart fucks in Blighttown are supremely annoying. Guaranteed 5 estus uses early game for getting hit by a tiny projectile while climbing a ladder. Absolute bullshit. Every other enemy in Blighttown is a joke, the huge bug fucks are just about the slowest enemy in the game, and it's easy to just run through the entire level. Honestly, it's about the same as the catacombs, shit enemies, annoying to traverse, easy to effectively skip, and both have one particular enemy that sucks balls (blowdart/bonewheel).
Tip for the Lake of Rot: Instead of bringing any way to get rid of your rot, roll in it, then go on the shore. The continued rot buildup gives the normal version of rot. The Lake itself gives a much stronger version of rot.
That's fine, but when flame cleanse me exists, I don't see any reason not to use it. Even for low faith builds, just pop on the two fingers talisman for +5 faith until you get to the other side.
@Gigawicket I find what I said to work far better. In the time it takes to use the incantation, you take a decently large amount of damage and rot buildup. Using it also slows down the trip through the lake significantly.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem you can cast flame cleanse me before rot procs to reset it. You take almost zero damage, aside from the tiny bit flame cleanse me does. Even weak scarlet rot does tons of damage.
@05-032 Mendicant Bias we have different definitions of "significantly". I think you're right for replays if you don't need anything in the lake of rot and don't want to explore. You can definitely run across without curing the rot with your method. I guess I prefer to poke around.
Im honestly surprised you didnt bring up how hellish 5-2 is with pure black tendency. On my first remake playthrough I accidentally got 5-2 to pure black and it haunts me to this day. Completely absurdly hard with all the black phantom enemies.
What was even worse was collecting the swamp’s ceramic coin in Fractured mode twice for the Rust Key to get Penetrator’s armor. *Edit: I did it once on PBWT. I didn’t know how world tendency worked back then.
50% health WITH THE RING Enemies one shot you You are slow as fuck There are MORE enemies Enemies dont lose agro easily 3 ogre giants with one red phantom ogre giant to cock block your way Worst. Experience. Ever.
Farron swamp remains my favorite. Good jump scares, big enough to get lost in. Enemies pair well with it for maximum panic and the forest swamp is unique among souls games.
For the poison swamp in sekiro, you can just grapple to the Buddha’s hand and then grapple 3 times to the other side to the head of a fallen statue. Then you can crouch walk behind the miniboss and stealth death blow him. If you are struggle to deal with his pull/grab attack you can just run to the side when ever you see the unblockable. If that doesn’t work for you, you can opt to use the umbrella which blocks the grab. You can avoid the second headless guardian ape by getting to the next idol in this area. As long as u haven’t beat the guardian ape yet, he won’t spawn there.
Consumed kings garden had very little areas to poison, was wildly short, but was def littered with enemies that made the short run packed with difficulty if clearing the area, but easy to run through. The short cuts, elevators, and easy to avoid pools on subsequent playthroughs make it rank lower than all these imho.
@@EmberPlays Have you heard of a thing called quickstep? You know the thing that comes attached to the basic dagger that anyone can wield? That same dagger that gives you the ability to go fast through the swamp?! Yeah you have a skill issue on that one, they give you a basic tool you can use to get around the slowness in the swamp...
imo, Demon's Souls remake as a WHOLE doesn't get enough credit. It has some solid bosses, and the areas are pretty good (minus the swamp). The game is really immersive, and the lore is decent. I love it for that reason.
It's a pretty great area. Tons of dope loot, some scary enemies you can easily avoid (except the one that chases you up to the second fire), the poison barely ticks health, so it's more of an anxiety thing than an actual danger. The artwork is awesome, the enemies can be tough the first go around, but the exactly 2 jumping grus can be avoided. It's got good variety, lots of fun encounters, a tough but rewarding puzzle, poison that isn't that dangerous, mountains of loot, and a pallet cleanse halfway through via the wolf tower/straw demon throwback boss fight on the busted bridge. Honestly it's the best poison area of the franchise for me.
I hated 5-1 much more than 5-2. I remember that poison ticks really slowly in Demon Souls and I have enough health recovery active that I really didn’t have to worry about being poisoned. The enemies do suck but at least it has a shortcut, something 5-1 doesn’t have. And I didn’t find the Lake of Rot that bad at all, the platforms you can raise give you a place to reset the build up and I had the spell that would cure rot. Definitely the poison areas in DS2 are the worse for me I think.
The only hard part for me in 5-1 was that den of Plague Rats. If they infected you with Plague, it was pretty much a death sentence, even with both the Cling Ring and Regenerator Ring equipped. If you had Soul Arrow and a Catalyst, you could shoot them from a distance. 5-2 was easier because I equipped the Fragrant Ring and the Regenerator Ring, and I cast the Antidote Miracle when my health got too low. Then I just let my Health and Mana regenerate, and I was good to go again.
I genuinely love the poison swamps in these games, and honestly i was a little let down with the lake of rot. If anything it just felt too small. Hurt me more Miyazaki 🥺
What is funny about the sekiro swamp is that in my first playthrough I went there before the mountain shootout. So for me the miniboss wasnt a reskin, but the first encounter.
for me Blighttown is easily the best, it's actually one of my favourite areas in the entire series. I know that many people hated it because of the performance issues and I guess that newer players just absorbed that hate, but if you look at it with a fresh eye, the whole area is actually just amazing
I love it in the same way I love Sens Fortress. It feels like a fun winding maze filled with traps but when you understand it it is very simple to go through. The swamp itself is super easy to run through as well.
Honestly a great summary of the swamps and about farron keep i have to say that everything you said is true theres great loot in here like the greatsword and some coal you give to the blacksmith you didnt mention the other enemies there like the ones that jump onto you and stuff but great video
farron keep is not too bad if you know the direct way and do not need the side items. The problem is getting all of the items by trudging through deep muck. If you do just the main path you can be done in under 2 minutes, getting all the side items without dying on repeat is what is the real time sink
I got the items to the left side without all the giant Elder Ghrus and it really wasn't bad. I went back for the other items after I'd cleared the Abyss Watchers and leveled up a bit more so I could handle them without being turned into paste. I really didn't have much trouble with it even if I did eat through all the purple moss I had on me by the end.
In regards to the Snake eyes grab technique with the gun, you can parry the blade when it pulls to you. The timing can be finicky but it's how I counter it
I'm dreading the Lake of Rot (first run), even though I already have the incantation. But I'm a spellblade so I kinda have to do Ranni's entire questline for the pretty, shiny sword.
I liked ds2 "swamp" the most becasue the mist doesnt slow you down and you can actually counter the poison effect with lifegems if you already played it you can grab the poison bite ring there if you want and eat a common fruit to gain more poison resist if you dont want close combat you can use magic or a bow and you can get rid of most of the enemies real Quick unless if you are using a +0 shortbow, with a +6 longbow you can shot the enemies in the mist in no time and you can use the poison pots to poison the fatty green enemies but if you dont want to Explore it you can run through real quick if you want the only negative experience there is the boss, but at least you can join the solaire covenant there. (sorry for shitty english i hope you will understand what i meant)
Why Farron Keep is probably one of the least frustrating and one of the more enjoyable swamps in the series: great visability of all enemies (all of which are primarily melee) making it extremely easy to aggro them one at a time and lure them to save spots to fight. Those three Elders in a corner are a prime example, just lure them one at a time and its extremely easy.
I actually just beat ds3 on ng+ two days ago and I didn’t even know about the swamp in the profaned capital until my second playthrough because I didn’t do onion bros questline.
I feel like blighttown was overhyped for it’s difficulty. By the time I got there, I was disappointed, I thought it was gonna be hard cause of what everyone was saying about it. I loved it and I can’t find someone who relates😔
I actually didn’t have many issues with the lake of rot lol. I get it tho, I don’t exactly enjoy it but the destination is pretty obvious and just buy some boluses or use magic to cure it constantly plus tanking it with flask chugs, you’ll be fine. My main issues are actually with how empty it is and the reskin boss IN the rot. Like at least give me a centipede demon style area to work with so I can get creative. I did love overlooking the lake from the Ainsel River. First time I saw that I went “what the fuuuuuuck”
The way that you parry the snake eyes grab attack is by waiting until she turns around and just as she lowers her gun in front of you and is about to shoot then press parry. It’s actually relatively easy to parry it but it’s scary at first
When you are fighting Snake eyes shirafuji after you parry an attack use ichimonji double and repeat or alternatively when she does the perilous use a umbrella to not get hit
Potential tier list material, top unique features from every souls games. Example: I hate Bloodborne for the needed to farm blood vials, but love the fact Dark Souls 1 doesn't have a mana bar, the pyros and magics have a specific times to use and you can upgrade it
My biggest problem with the Elder Ghru is their speed. Their size would make you think they'll be slow, lumbering and hard-hitting. So imagine when you see it barreling towards you through the poison swamp that you just struggled to go through at Mach 10 speeds, then hit you for almost all your hp.
I definitely agree with swamp of sorrow for first timers. Once you learn the game more though, it's not a problem anymore. Sodden ring + decently levelled adj shield and you're good to go. Add regen ring and it becomes a breeze. My least favorite has to be lake of rot, even though I completed elden ring 10+ times. The area itself is not bad but the scarlet rot is terrible. The build up and damage on that effect is absolutely broken
Dude, I don’t know if you know this, but in dark souls 3 if you equip a dagger, you can just quickstep through all of the swamps, and it makes those areas completely trivial. u move so fast nothing can catch u even when you run out of FP you can still continue to quickstep and you don’t have any movement penalty
"I'm a 100% DS2 defender" Say no more good sir, here's my subscription. Also... these zones are totally the zones I love to hate (and love them for that lol) really something super iconic to the souls saga, on the slower movement ones I just pop in some old youtube videos I like and listen to them as some sort of podcast, makes going through them a bit less annoying
The new lighting mod for DS2 is honestly the next best thing to a remaster. I'm doing a new playthrough of DS2 with it now, and the game looks fantastic
@RAYHAN REHEMA PUTRA it's called DS2 lighting engine on nexus mods. some areas are pretty dark, which forces you to use the torch a bit more. but for the most part it looks fantastic
I think the reason we all forget about the DS3 swamps is because of how well-made the rest of the game is, as well as the awesome Abyss Watchers fight after the Farron Keep.
Plus they aren't as bad as he makes them sound. Unlike previous games, all of them have good visability of the levels and the enemies, so it extremely easy to lure enemies to safe spot one at a time to fight. That and the poison in Dark Souks 3 doesn't do a lot of damage so its not that scary. And the Elders he mentioned are very easy to kill.
To this date I’m a poison swamp defender. I love the survival horror aspect of them especially when it comes to blighttown and the swamp of sorrow. I even think pharron keep is the okayish.
Poison Poll is so small in Sekrio I didn't actually considered it the poison swamp of the game. That distinction I gave to the area bellow the Boddshivatta Valey. Normal enemies stronger than the area boss Cramped spaces Poison Lizards Weird Ass rock people that come out of the wall just to screw you over That place has it all. I don't hate it per se but its probably one of the most annoying areas to explore due to those rock people.
IMO farron keep is made significantly less painful by the fact that you can just spam the quickstep weapon art on daggers to breeze through the area. If you don’t need all the items in the swamp areas (which most builds can get away with) farron can be pretty simple. Not good, mind you and won’t help a blind player, but you have more tools to get around the annoying parts of farron than some other poison swamps.
@@EmberPlays Absolutely yes, it is one of the most memorable areas in all of the franchise, tell me another dark souls 3 area (not DLC's , can't say coz i didn't play them) which is as memorable as the Farron Keep, only area which comes close to it is undead burg.
Absolutely not. It has nothing good. Limiting my roll is a thing i always hate (in blighttown with a certain ring i can move normally) level design is Just shit in comparison to blighttown. The 3 flames are a waste of Time and there are several recycled enemies from ds1 and demon's souls. Literally nothing about that place is good except for abyss watchers
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I played all of dark souls 2 and didn’t know that the game had a poison swamp
If the fighting cowboy didn't exist I wouldn't be able to beat ds1 and bloodborne
You forgot the castle swamp from elden ring bud.
I feel like Ferron is overlooked because of how little the poison even comes into play. It's the one poison swamp that is swamp first, poison second
I couldn' disagree more, i cant stand farron keep, everything looks the same, enemies are annoying and yoi need to do the stupid puzzle. Blighttown is short simple and can be over and done wjth in 5 minutes ( plus thr climb down is excellent level design)
@@joemoe650 but again, all your complaints about Farron Keep and you didn't even mention the poison.
@@joemoe650 The stupid puzzle isn't even that stupid, just follow stuff that's on fire.
Just because poison isn't the most annoying part doesn't make it a good poison swamp. One of the worst swamps in the franchise by far@@bretth342
Man if you like swamps so much why don't you live in one?!?!?
Souls Mojo never disapoints but yeah the swamp of sorrow is so painful to go through I must've died like at least 10 times and let's not talk about the giant who are full speed destroying you.
Great outro as always
Thank-
10 times is nothing. I died at least 50 times minimum trying to make it out. I had to get the sodden ring just to make my life easier because those big idiots are too difficult without the ability to roll
@@EmberPlays "Wait a second!" Lmao
@@TheHeisenberg69Ah, the ring. For you all to know there was no such a ring in original DeS. Just think what this swamp really was once.
I honestly really enjoyed exploring the swamp in DS3. There was some ground so you didn’t always have to be poisoned. The enemy variety was pretty good and lighting all the torches was a fun challenge
Agreed. I always found that to be one of the more enjoyable poison trudges.
Absolutely not. The roll is terrible. I hate when They limited my roll. Light in the 3 flames is not a challenge But a waste of my time. I really prefer blighttown because with a certain ring you can move normally.
@@martinfranchini7488 buy the dagger in firelink for qs
I know the wa of the dagger. But still, it's a poorly designed area if I need to use a wa to move. At least in blighttown the poison swamp is a Small part of the area and not having the ring isn't too much of a problem since you can still roll normally Even without it. In farron none of this is possible.
@@martinfranchini7488"I don't want to use a good mechanic for traversing a swamp, I just want to bitch senselessly"
Snake Eyes Shirahagi Grab Attack can actually be deflected for some reason. Im pretty sure this is the only grab in the game you can do that.
You can use the umbrella to deflect Emma and Isshin’s grab but that’s about it. You can just block it with the umbrella but you’ll get knockback, if you parry it you can use projected force to counter the grab
You can deflect almost every grab attack if you use umbrella.
Yeah she's cake when you do that, honestly Ashina depths should have gotten the easiest on this list, it's entirely possible and pretty easy to go through the whole thing without even touching poison once
I find it crazy how every time miyazaki makes a poison swamp he adds an entire free game bonus with it
Blighttown is legit my favorite level in DS1 and IMO one of the most memorable levels in all of Souls. I think its peak level design, Along with incredible Atmosphere, Went into it expecting a horrible experience, Left absolutely baffled how so many despise it.
It's the most difficult in the cheapest ways possible. It's the most meme worthy hunk o junk. The design on paper is pretty cool. In operation it's a tedious and boring slog through artificial difficulty. Lots of dark narrow paths and ambushes and bad collision and constant off screen hits and then more bad collision over and over until you reach a big open pit with absolutely nothing to do, not much important loot to gather, and an annoying boss run through slow motion poison before a legitimately fun boss. 2/10
@@ItzSkettimas That's your opinion, Which is fine, I, However, Feel very differently lol. I never thought it was difficult other than those one dudes spamming the toxic darts in a particular area, But other than that it was one of the more entertaining areas to go through, In no way did I find it tedious or boring. I actually liked a lot of the enemy placements, Loved the platforming and verticality of the level, And again, The atmosphere was second to none. Def my favorite area from DS1 next to the DLC. Amazing experience for me, Horrible experience for others. Maybe if I played it on the OG DS1 I might of had a different experience tho, As I've heard the lighting and frame rate was atrocious on the PS3 version. But on the remastered version I played I had no issues whatsoever. Overall tho, I freaking loved Blighttown lol
@@butterschunkmcdonalds5333 the main reason blighttown has such a bad reputation, was that it caused an insane amount of lag in the original game, especially on console
@@leonjakobsen272 Yeah that's what I figured, Like I said I only played it on the Remastered version so it was fine for me but I seen OG DS1 and the frame drops were insane in Blighttown lol
The blowdart fucks in Blighttown are supremely annoying. Guaranteed 5 estus uses early game for getting hit by a tiny projectile while climbing a ladder. Absolute bullshit. Every other enemy in Blighttown is a joke, the huge bug fucks are just about the slowest enemy in the game, and it's easy to just run through the entire level. Honestly, it's about the same as the catacombs, shit enemies, annoying to traverse, easy to effectively skip, and both have one particular enemy that sucks balls (blowdart/bonewheel).
Cowboy carried me through Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne. I plan to work through DS 1 and 2 by following his walkthroughs.
Cowboy is a fucking legend
Dont watch walkthroughs it will ruin the game
Tip for the Lake of Rot: Instead of bringing any way to get rid of your rot, roll in it, then go on the shore. The continued rot buildup gives the normal version of rot. The Lake itself gives a much stronger version of rot.
That's fine, but when flame cleanse me exists, I don't see any reason not to use it. Even for low faith builds, just pop on the two fingers talisman for +5 faith until you get to the other side.
@Gigawicket I find what I said to work far better. In the time it takes to use the incantation, you take a decently large amount of damage and rot buildup. Using it also slows down the trip through the lake significantly.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem you can cast flame cleanse me before rot procs to reset it. You take almost zero damage, aside from the tiny bit flame cleanse me does. Even weak scarlet rot does tons of damage.
@@Gigawicket You could, but it still significantly slows the journey. I prefer to just take the reduced damage and quickly run through.
@05-032 Mendicant Bias we have different definitions of "significantly". I think you're right for replays if you don't need anything in the lake of rot and don't want to explore. You can definitely run across without curing the rot with your method. I guess I prefer to poke around.
Im honestly surprised you didnt bring up how hellish 5-2 is with pure black tendency. On my first remake playthrough I accidentally got 5-2 to pure black and it haunts me to this day. Completely absurdly hard with all the black phantom enemies.
What was even worse was collecting the swamp’s ceramic coin in Fractured mode twice for the Rust Key to get Penetrator’s armor.
*Edit: I did it once on PBWT. I didn’t know how world tendency worked back then.
50% health WITH THE RING
Enemies one shot you
You are slow as fuck
There are MORE enemies
Enemies dont lose agro easily
3 ogre giants with one red phantom ogre giant to cock block your way
Worst. Experience. Ever.
Certified Swamp Classic
Lmaoooo
Straight outta Swampton
The catfish profile picture confirms he knows what he’s talking about
We gettin' out the swamp with this one
Definitely agree with black gulch placement if not higher. That place was horrible to go through every time
100%
Miyazaki probably wants to add a poison swamp in armored core.
I hope so
Rust swamp
Tetanus Swamp, The Bog of Rust
You can use the quick step ability on the dagger to move much faster through poison swamps in ds3. This also works for the lava in elden ring
Farron swamp remains my favorite. Good jump scares, big enough to get lost in. Enemies pair well with it for maximum panic and the forest swamp is unique among souls games.
Bloodborne has 2 poison swamps
Cowboy carried all of us at some point I think 😂
Lmao for real
Cowboys the atlas of the souls series cuz like atlas carries the earth and heavens on his shoulders so does cowboy
Farron keep is the easiest all you need is a dagger and then spam it's weapon art
Shrek is Miyazaki favourite movie.
For the poison swamp in sekiro, you can just grapple to the Buddha’s hand and then grapple 3 times to the other side to the head of a fallen statue. Then you can crouch walk behind the miniboss and stealth death blow him. If you are struggle to deal with his pull/grab attack you can just run to the side when ever you see the unblockable. If that doesn’t work for you, you can opt to use the umbrella which blocks the grab.
You can avoid the second headless guardian ape by getting to the next idol in this area. As long as u haven’t beat the guardian ape yet, he won’t spawn there.
I've watched this 4,069 times on repeat. Certified Ember classic.
youre the goat
2:56 HE DID THE JOKE
W tier list there Soulsmojo, great to see a new video from you! Now when is the “Ms. Ember plays Souls games” video?
Thank u so much for watching!!! Gonna try to get her to play next weekend hahaha
Low key cowboy carries new souls players hard, he is just so good at what he is doing, shout-out cowboy
Huh. I know you said you weren't including smaller areas, but I still think Elphael, Consumed King's Garden and Forbidden Woods should be here.
Consumed kings garden had very little areas to poison, was wildly short, but was def littered with enemies that made the short run packed with difficulty if clearing the area, but easy to run through. The short cuts, elevators, and easy to avoid pools on subsequent playthroughs make it rank lower than all these imho.
Farron Keep gotta be my favorite area of all souls games
Noooo
@@EmberPlays Have you heard of a thing called quickstep? You know the thing that comes attached to the basic dagger that anyone can wield? That same dagger that gives you the ability to go fast through the swamp?! Yeah you have a skill issue on that one, they give you a basic tool you can use to get around the slowness in the swamp...
@@EmberPlays It's way easier when it floats down.
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Miyazaki:- oh that's a great idea how bout a miniboss gank too in the lake for the next DLC. Thanks for the idea
farron keep was lowkey fun unlike Black Gulch or Lake of Rot
imo, Demon's Souls remake as a WHOLE doesn't get enough credit. It has some solid bosses, and the areas are pretty good (minus the swamp). The game is really immersive, and the lore is decent. I love it for that reason.
Justice for Farron Keep lmao
Omg how does everyone like this area 😂😂😂😂
It's a pretty great area. Tons of dope loot, some scary enemies you can easily avoid (except the one that chases you up to the second fire), the poison barely ticks health, so it's more of an anxiety thing than an actual danger. The artwork is awesome, the enemies can be tough the first go around, but the exactly 2 jumping grus can be avoided. It's got good variety, lots of fun encounters, a tough but rewarding puzzle, poison that isn't that dangerous, mountains of loot, and a pallet cleanse halfway through via the wolf tower/straw demon throwback boss fight on the busted bridge.
Honestly it's the best poison area of the franchise for me.
FINALLY, I HAVE BEEN PREACHING SINCE LAUNCH ER'S DLC NEEDS TO BE A SWAMP KINGDOM
The only reason people hated blightown was because of the frame drops at release. It's one of the best areas in DS1 hands down
I hated 5-1 much more than 5-2. I remember that poison ticks really slowly in Demon Souls and I have enough health recovery active that I really didn’t have to worry about being poisoned. The enemies do suck but at least it has a shortcut, something 5-1 doesn’t have. And I didn’t find the Lake of Rot that bad at all, the platforms you can raise give you a place to reset the build up and I had the spell that would cure rot. Definitely the poison areas in DS2 are the worse for me I think.
The only hard part for me in 5-1 was that den of Plague Rats. If they infected you with Plague, it was pretty much a death sentence, even with both the Cling Ring and Regenerator Ring equipped. If you had Soul Arrow and a Catalyst, you could shoot them from a distance.
5-2 was easier because I equipped the Fragrant Ring and the Regenerator Ring, and I cast the Antidote Miracle when my health got too low. Then I just let my Health and Mana regenerate, and I was good to go again.
I'm surprised the Consumed King's Garden didn't make the list, but Profaned Capital did
I genuinely love the poison swamps in these games, and honestly i was a little let down with the lake of rot. If anything it just felt too small. Hurt me more Miyazaki 🥺
What is funny about the sekiro swamp is that in my first playthrough I went there before the mountain shootout. So for me the miniboss wasnt a reskin, but the first encounter.
for me Blighttown is easily the best, it's actually one of my favourite areas in the entire series. I know that many people hated it because of the performance issues and I guess that newer players just absorbed that hate, but if you look at it with a fresh eye, the whole area is actually just amazing
I love it in the same way I love Sens Fortress. It feels like a fun winding maze filled with traps but when you understand it it is very simple to go through. The swamp itself is super easy to run through as well.
Good to see Ember on stream last night admit Farron keep was the best but this video was already made so couldn't change it.
Nooooo farron keep is horrible but thanks for watching :)
Honestly a great summary of the swamps and about farron keep i have to say that everything you said is true theres great loot in here like the greatsword and some coal you give to the blacksmith you didnt mention the other enemies there like the ones that jump onto you and stuff but great video
The jumping ghrus were who I was referring to, they are super annoying hahahaha thank u for watching!!!
Runner up, the cave in Elden Ring with the Gold Scarab. That fucking rot if you weren't ready and the poison as well.
farron keep is not too bad if you know the direct way and do not need the side items. The problem is getting all of the items by trudging through deep muck. If you do just the main path you can be done in under 2 minutes, getting all the side items without dying on repeat is what is the real time sink
I got the items to the left side without all the giant Elder Ghrus and it really wasn't bad. I went back for the other items after I'd cleared the Abyss Watchers and leveled up a bit more so I could handle them without being turned into paste. I really didn't have much trouble with it even if I did eat through all the purple moss I had on me by the end.
In regards to the Snake eyes grab technique with the gun, you can parry the blade when it pulls to you. The timing can be finicky but it's how I counter it
I love the fightingcowboy shoutout because he also helped me through several parts of the souls series.
That was a super clever plug at 3:09, lol.
Now i want a top worst tree boss like bad of chaos, aldia and curse rotten tree. Miyazaki hate tree for some reason.
Nice video, good work! Video idea: ranking soulsborne OSTs
I'm not first😢
I want to do that in the future for sure!!
I'm dreading the Lake of Rot (first run), even though I already have the incantation. But I'm a spellblade so I kinda have to do Ranni's entire questline for the pretty, shiny sword.
don't give up, skeleton!
its not that bad honestly just roll in the rot and youll take less damage and run straight to the giant door thingy and youll be fine
What about the swamp area near forbidden woods in bloodborne which has the ladder that takes you to losefkas clinic
I liked ds2 "swamp" the most becasue the mist doesnt slow you down and you can actually counter the poison effect with lifegems if you already played it you can grab the poison bite ring there if you want and eat a common fruit to gain more poison resist if you dont want close combat you can use magic or a bow and you can get rid of most of the enemies real Quick unless if you are using a +0 shortbow, with a +6 longbow you can shot the enemies in the mist in no time and you can use the poison pots to poison the fatty green enemies but if you dont want to Explore it you can run through real quick if you want the only negative experience there is the boss, but at least you can join the solaire covenant there. (sorry for shitty english i hope you will understand what i meant)
Wow, didn’t knew this one had Elden Ring including in it. Was quite a surprise!
Farron Keep is the best area
Nooo noo noooo
Definitely not the best. I hate it every time i play the game and it's the only thing which i hate in ds3
Why Farron Keep is probably one of the least frustrating and one of the more enjoyable swamps in the series: great visability of all enemies (all of which are primarily melee) making it extremely easy to aggro them one at a time and lure them to save spots to fight. Those three Elders in a corner are a prime example, just lure them one at a time and its extremely easy.
oh yeah I hoped Black Gulch is going to show up here
The Lake of Rot looks like an entire area filled with the psycho-slime from Ghostbusters II.
Bloodborne is such a solid game that it somehow made a poison swamp not bad.
I actually just beat ds3 on ng+ two days ago and I didn’t even know about the swamp in the profaned capital until my second playthrough because I didn’t do onion bros questline.
i genuinely didn’t even know the profaned capital was a swamp, i always just take the shortest sprint to yhorm
great outro 10/10 would recommend
Thanks :)
Hard agree on swamp of sorrow, not to mention astrea's area. That place is one of the only souls areas I haven't fully explored.
I feel like blighttown was overhyped for it’s difficulty. By the time I got there, I was disappointed, I thought it was gonna be hard cause of what everyone was saying about it. I loved it and I can’t find someone who relates😔
@RAYHAN REHEMA PUTRA I can’t find someone who relates😔
@RAYHAN REHEMA PUTRA yea
The valley of defilement( lake of sorrow) is really the OG swamp😭 on ps3 it was SOOOOOO dark
I actually didn’t have many issues with the lake of rot lol. I get it tho, I don’t exactly enjoy it but the destination is pretty obvious and just buy some boluses or use magic to cure it constantly plus tanking it with flask chugs, you’ll be fine.
My main issues are actually with how empty it is and the reskin boss IN the rot. Like at least give me a centipede demon style area to work with so I can get creative. I did love overlooking the lake from the Ainsel River. First time I saw that I went “what the fuuuuuuck”
Are you the same guy from the Instagram page?
Ember uploads again helll yeahhh
Yoooooo
Use the umbrella to counter the gun mini-boss' grab, you have to use it at the very last second when she pulls you in
I always enjoy watching the outros of these videos because, pretty much every single time, he
Twas only a matter of time before this was a topic. But I was not prepared for it to be one this day
Block snake eyes grab on the pull in not the push out. Took me forever to get that
The way that you parry the snake eyes grab attack is by waiting until she turns around and just as she lowers her gun in front of you and is about to shoot then press parry. It’s actually relatively easy to parry it but it’s scary at first
Farron Keep--> equip dagger --> when slow rolling, switch to it and L2 to win
When you are fighting Snake eyes shirafuji after you parry an attack use ichimonji double and repeat or alternatively when she does the perilous use a umbrella to not get hit
"I'm basically lil aggy but better" ember tryna become an opp
Alternate title for this video: Miyazaki's Ranking of his own games
Potential tier list material, top unique features from every souls games. Example: I hate Bloodborne for the needed to farm blood vials, but love the fact Dark Souls 1 doesn't have a mana bar, the pyros and magics have a specific times to use and you can upgrade it
Shootout to FightinCowboy, he’s my Go To gameplay walkthrough TH-camr
He’s the best
My biggest problem with the Elder Ghru is their speed. Their size would make you think they'll be slow, lumbering and hard-hitting. So imagine when you see it barreling towards you through the poison swamp that you just struggled to go through at Mach 10 speeds, then hit you for almost all your hp.
I definitely agree with swamp of sorrow for first timers. Once you learn the game more though, it's not a problem anymore. Sodden ring + decently levelled adj shield and you're good to go. Add regen ring and it becomes a breeze.
My least favorite has to be lake of rot, even though I completed elden ring 10+ times. The area itself is not bad but the scarlet rot is terrible. The build up and damage on that effect is absolutely broken
I love binge watching your videos
Dude, I don’t know if you know this, but in dark souls 3 if you equip a dagger, you can just quickstep through all of the swamps, and it makes those areas completely trivial. u move so fast nothing can catch u even when you run out of FP you can still continue to quickstep and you don’t have any movement penalty
I guess the second poison swamp in sekiro wasn't bad at all since he forgot about it
"I'm a 100% DS2 defender"
Say no more good sir, here's my subscription.
Also... these zones are totally the zones I love to hate (and love them for that lol)
really something super iconic to the souls saga, on the slower movement ones I just pop in some old youtube videos I like and listen to them as some sort of podcast, makes going through them a bit less annoying
cowboy is indeed goated, helped me alot with my sekiro playthrought.
The new lighting mod for DS2 is honestly the next best thing to a remaster. I'm doing a new playthrough of DS2 with it now, and the game looks fantastic
@RAYHAN REHEMA PUTRA it's called DS2 lighting engine on nexus mods. some areas are pretty dark, which forces you to use the torch a bit more. but for the most part it looks fantastic
DFO still exists??? I played that game like a decade ago. Thanks Ember
Also shout out Fightin Cowboy the undisputed GOAT of Soulsborne walkthroughs.
You counter the snake-eyes grab by deflecting btw. Or using a prosthetic.
Fun fact…you can skip the ape duo boss fight by too going to ashina depths and mibu village first before the valley with the OG ape.
farron keep gotta be the best one 😂
I think the reason we all forget about the DS3 swamps is because of how well-made the rest of the game is, as well as the awesome Abyss Watchers fight after the Farron Keep.
Plus they aren't as bad as he makes them sound. Unlike previous games, all of them have good visability of the levels and the enemies, so it extremely easy to lure enemies to safe spot one at a time to fight. That and the poison in Dark Souks 3 doesn't do a lot of damage so its not that scary. And the Elders he mentioned are very easy to kill.
Love your streams ember keep up 🔥
thanks for watching!!!!!
Btw you can use the dagger's special... move... in ds3 farron keep to dodge faster
To this date I’m a poison swamp defender. I love the survival horror aspect of them especially when it comes to blighttown and the swamp of sorrow. I even think pharron keep is the okayish.
I don't like poison areas but imo the poison swamp in ds3 is not only good its even one of my favorite area of the entire game. I enjoyed it a lot
Poison Poll is so small in Sekrio I didn't actually considered it the poison swamp of the game. That distinction I gave to the area bellow the Boddshivatta Valey.
Normal enemies stronger than the area boss
Cramped spaces
Poison Lizards
Weird Ass rock people that come out of the wall just to screw you over
That place has it all. I don't hate it per se but its probably one of the most annoying areas to explore due to those rock people.
IMO farron keep is made significantly less painful by the fact that you can just spam the quickstep weapon art on daggers to breeze through the area. If you don’t need all the items in the swamp areas (which most builds can get away with) farron can be pretty simple. Not good, mind you and won’t help a blind player, but you have more tools to get around the annoying parts of farron than some other poison swamps.
I think farron keep is a good area
I love how he leans into the watch mojo meme 😂😂
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I hope it comes with a physical edition and a bonus of a bloody disc
WHEN IT FLOATS DOWN😂
Farron Keep is amazing. should be at the top at best place
you are weird
Absolutely not
@@EmberPlays Absolutely yes, it is one of the most memorable areas in all of the franchise, tell me another dark souls 3 area (not DLC's , can't say coz i didn't play them) which is as memorable as the Farron Keep, only area which comes close to it is undead burg.
Absolutely not. It has nothing good. Limiting my roll is a thing i always hate (in blighttown with a certain ring i can move normally) level design is Just shit in comparison to blighttown. The 3 flames are a waste of Time and there are several recycled enemies from ds1 and demon's souls. Literally nothing about that place is good except for abyss watchers
Which areas are more memorable of farron keep? Literally everyone in the whole franchise, except for frigid outskirts and swamp of sorrow